Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The cloth covering the breech, worn by American Indians and other uncivilized peoples.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun covering for the loins.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated
breechcloth orloincloth
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a garment that provides covering for the loins
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Examples
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By “Indian dress” he meant costume common to whites as well as Indians in the west: moccasins, leggings, breechclout, and a hunting shirt, a knee-length smock of linen, wool, or linsey-woolsey, drab and durable.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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By “Indian dress” he meant costume common to whites as well as Indians in the west: moccasins, leggings, breechclout, and a hunting shirt, a knee-length smock of linen, wool, or linsey-woolsey, drab and durable.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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By “Indian dress” he meant costume common to whites as well as Indians in the west: moccasins, leggings, breechclout, and a hunting shirt, a knee-length smock of linen, wool, or linsey-woolsey, drab and durable.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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By “Indian dress” he meant costume common to whites as well as Indians in the west: moccasins, leggings, breechclout, and a hunting shirt, a knee-length smock of linen, wool, or linsey-woolsey, drab and durable.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The breechclout was so filthy it was like wearing dirt, but this wasn't a time to get finicky.
He Don't Know Him 2010
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After that he wore a breechclout, leggings, and moccasins.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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Large brass hoops were in his ears; he was naked to the waist, wearing simply leggings, moccasins and a breechclout.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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The young man then ventured out to a lonely place where he would see no one, clad only in breechclout and moccasins.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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He had thrust the wet moccasins down the neck of his shirt, and icy trickles ran down chest and belly, soaking his breechclout.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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Sweat poured down his body under the leather shirt, soaked the draggled breechclout between his legs.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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